I purchased the riding skill, i bought a mount but i cant mount it, it says I required the riding skill, which i purchased...

Check the skill closely. I think you can only purchase "Riding" skill, per the 1.12 update, but the mounts still require the racial riding skills, which are no longer available.

This will probably need to be updated server side at some point, but I am sure it is fairly low on the priority list at the moment.

are u the right lvl?

dude the bad thing is u learn the skill and u need 1000 gold to buy a horsy with 100%speed understand?

OK here's the alternative that I've found (Alliance only)

1) I bought "riding" from the NPC at Eastvale logging camp

2) I made my way to IF

3) I ambled west along the road until I came to amberstill ranch, and there bought a dwarven war ram (which is the only alliance mount, sans paladin horsey, that has appeared as useable in the vendor window.

If you don't like the look of the dwarven epic mount, then I suppose you're stuck at walking speed!

If anyone *has* been able to get the ordinary mounts working... feel free to contradict me.

Someone else posted something about frostmane wolves working too? Maybe it's the Horde equivalent of the war ram... please confirm someone.

Selene

Dude,1000g is nothing on this server...

@Smyle - I don't remember what skills (riding) I purchased, but I am currently riding a human Epic mount. When the server comes back up (tweakage / maintenance I think). I'll see if I can't retrace my steps.

lol people talk of gold on this server is worthless... in the 5 minutes of playing before the crash... you get enough gold to go and do whatever you want.....

It is the same on the Horde side.

60 speed mounts: Trainers teach the "new" skill (just riding) but mounts require the "old" skill (racial specific) - as an added bonus, not that it matters here, thank goodness, but the price of the mount is on the old scheme (high) and the trainer is on the new scheme (high).

Seems to be the same on this sever for the epics too, with the possible exception of AV reward mounts. For comparison, on Fundor Trolls and Orcs can buy epic mount (only 1 color, rest require racial specific) with no requirements as far as skill.

If the AV mounts work, we're good - but if they don't then we'll be doing alot of walking - which I'm glad to do until the server is stable

epic mounts will work correctly rite? like drop ones